Proof. Joe biden and his son are corrupt. If a republican ever did what joe biden did, if a republican ever said what joe biden said, they would be getting the electric chair by right now. Trump did not specify what biden said or did. Senate republicans, meanwhile, offering a variety of responses. Its regrettable that House Intelligence Committee schiff and schumer have chosen to politicize the issue. I would like to have the whistleblower come and talk to me so we know what the story is. I believe that President Trump will blow you away with his willingness to disclose and be transparent about this phone call because i think he did nothing wrong and he has nothing to hide. I dont think he should have done it. But thats a far cry from what people are claiming is fact, that we dont know is fact. House democrats will discuss the investigation in a membersonly meeting this afternoon. Some of them telling us the caucus is reaching a tipping point, as the investigation blocks the release of
Watch. I think its ridiculous. Its a witch hunt. Im reading in the polls. They have no idea how they stop me. The only way they can trace their impeachment pair this has never happened to present befor. This is nonsense. Harris also gets written on the United States united na. Lets go to the white house correspondent, chief john mackey john roberts, with the latest. Good afternoon to you, from outside the United Nations pay the present give a speech as morning continues bilateral meetings with World Leaders. The president back in midjuly told his chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to tell the state department and also that affirmative defense to hold that 400 million in aid ukraine. Mulvaney then passed on that message. The president says the white house as part of the reason they were doing that was in the context of looking at foreign aid to countries. What was the United States getting for all the money was handing out around the world . The second part of that was and the present talked
Get stuck with a nearly 700,000 hospital bill . And harry and meghan follow in dianas footsteps as they travel through africa. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell. Brennan good evening. This is our western edition. Norah is on assignment. Im margaret brennan. Tonight, more answers lead to even more questions about President Trumps july phone call with the new leader of ukraine. The president confirmed they did discuss joe biden and his son. He also publicly accused the bidens of being corrupt, but he denied putting any pressure on ukraine to open an investigation. Weijia jiang starts us off tonight from the united nations. Ne we had a perfect phone call with the president of ukraine. Everybody knows it. Reporter the phone conversation between President Trump and ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is the talk of the town as President Trump meets with World Leaders in new york city. The president has been on the defensive since it was revealed that a whistleblower filed
Reporter i just know this is sauflly familiar except you were behind a podium. Dana i had defenses. I dont need any defenses here. Whats going on . Reporter whats interesting is to see whats happened over the course of the last few day. At the beginning of this development, looked like the president was knocked back on his heels a little bit. He said something very telling at the white house. Said keep climbing to the press because the higher you climb on this story, the further youre going to fall, which was an indication that theres something here that maybe less than what it appears at the beginning. The president did seem to be sort of scrambling to respond to it. Now hes trying to flip the script to say my phone call was perfectly fine, above board, because we were talking about corruption. Joe and hunter biden came up in the context of corruption. The president was asked was he worried at all about peaimpeac t impeachment . He said, nope, not worried about it at all. We had a con
Breaking overnight. The president himself ordered a hold on military aid to ukraine, days before speaking to the ukrainian president , as calls for impeachment grow. With iran topping the agenda, the u. S. Speaks at the u. N. This morning. Is there a path to diplomacy . And did the faa Mislead Congress on training for boeing 373 max . They say inspectors were underqualified. Welcome, everyone. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Its 4 00 in new york. President trump may have had political motives when he spoke with ukraines president and pressured him to investigate joe bidens son. Cnn learning that President Trump hput a hold on american t the ukraine. The Washington Post first to report this. A Senior Administration official says the president was mabley concerned about corruption and pushing europe to shoulder more of the financial burden for ukraines defense. Senator chris murphy says zelensky w